Minecraft: Education Edition gives teachers a way to craft deeply engaging experiences using interdisciplinary skills, and encourages pupils to explore, collaborate, and communicate more effectively - thus breaking down barriers between school and home, learning and play.
This is why in 2019, CCEA (Council for Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment) decided to utilise one of the world's most popular "sandbox" games which is available to all Northern Ireland schools and develop a favourite Key Stage Two Topic - The Vikings
By illustrating how connections can be made between STEM, History, and Geography with the important infusion of 21st-century skills, it facilitated important curriculum connections.
"Minecraft was something very new and innovative, while Vikings is a topic very familiar to primary school teachers," explained Melanie Mulligan, Education Manager at CCEA. "It seemed like an opportunity to inject 21st-century learning into the classroom with relative ease."
Stay tuned for more about this joint initiative between Dream Space and RTÉjr which uses Minecraft: Education Edition as an educational tool to engage school communities in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Click here to find out more at - Ireland's Future Is MINE
CCEA is the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment in Northern Ireland. You can keep up to date with them on Twitter and Instagram - @ccea_info
